Bridge Designer · Stationery Reviewer
Plan intentionally. Engineer your life.
I'm Luis Duque. I design bridges in Rapid City, South Dakota, and on YouTube I review the pens, notebooks and planners I carry. I also design printable planner inserts.
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7 Pocket Notebook Covers I Actually Use
Reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and the setups I carry every day. Subscribe and the next one shows up in your feed.
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Planner inserts I designed, from $0.99
Ten printable layouts and two fold-outs, in A5, A6, B6, Personal, Pocket and Half Letter. Undated PDFs, an instant download after checkout.
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The Complete Set
All ten layouts and both fold-outs. $5.99 for one size, $19.99 for every size.
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Weekly Spread
Monday to Thursday on the left, Friday to Sunday on the right. The weekend gets real room.
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Filler Pack
Dot, grid and lined pages on a 4 mm grid. Try the paper before you buy anything.
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Quiz · 2 minutes
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Eight questions. Find out if you're an Architect, Visionary, Minimalist, Sprinter or Collector, with a breakdown of your strengths.
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"The best engineering is invisible. It just works. I want my planning systems to feel the same way."
Luis Duque
My story
I design bridges for a living. Paper is where I plan the rest.
I design bridges in Rapid City, South Dakota. I grew up in the coffee region of Colombia, came to the US for engineering, and found that the discipline of building infrastructure and the discipline of building a life are the same discipline.
Fountain pens, good notebooks and paper planners aren't nostalgia for me. They're precision instruments, and they slow me down in the right way.
Planning Engineered is where I test them in public: what earns a place in my bag, what doesn't, and why.
Ríos de Oro
The fuel behind every field note.
Every morning ritual in my videos starts the same way: Ríos de Oro in the cup before the pen touches paper. Colombian coffee from my family's farms in Caldas, imported directly by my brother Juan and me.
No warehousing. No middlemen. The same coffee my family has grown for over 50 years.
Free. No fluff.
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